10-09-2017, 04:02 AM
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AAPC Community Wiki: Lacunar Stroke

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I am looking for clarification on correcting coding of Lacunar Stroke. My thoughts, under the new ICD-10 rules, it is a 'specified' stroke; tho not specific enough for a location and therefore would be best defined as I63.8 which is 'Other' Cerebral Infarction vs I63.9 which is Cerebral infarction, Unspecified (Stroke NOS). What do ya'll think?

I am looking for clarification on correcting coding of Lacunar Stroke. My thoughts, under the new ICD-10 rules, it is a 'specified' stroke; tho not specific enough for a location and therefore would be best defined as I63.8 which is 'Other' Cerebral Infarction vs I63.9 which is Cerebral infarction, Unspecified (Stroke NOS). What do ya'll think?

Thank you!

My thoughts are the same--since it is specified, I63.8 is the best choice. However, there are several sites I've come across that list Lacunar as I63.9. I don't get the logic in that AT ALL!!

Here's one of them I've seen it on; you can search I63.8 on the same site for examples it includes there.

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